New grange burial mound in County Meath, Ireland is definitely one of the most impressive prehistoric monuments in the world. Build between 3300 BC – 2900 BC the people of new stone age (Neolithic) Ireland, is also the world’s oldest surviving building (it’s older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt).

Newgrange burial
Newgrange is impressive circular mound is 250 feet (76 m) across and 40 feet (12 m) high and weighing 250,000 tons of building. Covers the entire acre (4046 m²). Long tunnel under the mound leading to a high domed burial chamber, a corbelled vault with a ceiling made of large stone slabs each other.
Newgrange entrance marked by a large roadside stone carved with “megalithic art,” which includes the arc concentric spiral motifs and cracked into the stone by stone tools.
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